bereave
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Half of our crew were locals, so we offered them to take time off to bereave should they choose to.
From Salon ● May 12, 2023
Yet, when discretion doth bereave The plaints that they should utter,Then thy discretion may perceive That silence is a suitor.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 10, 2012
Life after college can feel like a desperate and depressing limbo where recent grads bereave the loss of carefree times when they aren’t scouring Craigslist for employment.
From Washington Post
"Luther never intended to bereave the church of her mystery," says one Sammlung theologian.
From Time Magazine Archive
I hold it not a brotherly part to desire to bereave me of my two children at once.
From History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia by Charles Campbell
“It utterly bereaves me to pass on the news that I have been advised by my medical team here in the UK to cancel my upcoming USA book tour,” Moore wrote on Instagram.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2023
Queen Elizabeth II will be seated alone as she bereaves the death of her husband of 73 years, Prince Philip, at his funeral on Saturday.
From Fox News ● Apr. 16, 2021
First of his Wit, then of his Wealth bereaves him; And when she has got all she can, she leaves him.
From The London-Bawd: With Her Character and Life Discovering the Various and Subtle Intrigues of Lewd Women by Anonymous
"Though of love your hate bereaves us "Yet the veil and cowl it leaves us, "We shall wear till life be o'er."
From The Tales Of The Heptameron, Vol. III. (of V.) by George Saintsbury
Yet tell us, good my Lord, what thought it is That thus bereaves you of your late content, That in advise we may assist your grace, Or bend our forces to revive your spirits.
From Fair Em by Shakespeare (spurious and doubtful works)
Grenfell United, a bereaved families and survivors group, has previously criticised the time frame for prosecutions.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
"I've had so many messages from bereaved parents, people who've lost a family member or a close friend," he said.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
No one will give speeches at the ceremony, while bereaved family members will read out the names of all of those killed and a bell rung to mark major moments during the attack.
From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026
Some members of the bereaved families left the hearing room as Beggs continued.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
Her eyes were full of compassion, and Cholly remembered that he was the bereaved.
From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison
Among the major problems is the lead performance of Mr. Pattinson, who gives us a greasy, erratic character bereft of the charm, smarm and rounded baritone that TV newsmen rely on.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
But warmer oceans are also often bereft of the high-energy prey these juvenile salmon need for rapid growth when they reach the saltwater.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
Just two years ago, Naomi Osaka was struggling to understand why a sport that was "as simple as breathing to me" was leaving her bereft.
From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026
But the salaries and benefits offered by BAE draw workers from other professions, leaving the town bereft of mechanics, driving instructors and nurses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 14, 2026
Homo sapiens long preferred to view itself as set apart from animals, an orphan bereft of family, lacking siblings or cousins, and most importantly, without parents.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
Even those who are still alive are forced to spend parts of their existence inadvertently bereaving the death of a life they were promised.
From Salon ● Jun. 7, 2025
Culkin, 39, pressed that the death of Dakota – whose nickname was Cody – hit everyone in their family differently and they all were "torn up inside" while bereaving the accident.
From Fox News ● Oct. 6, 2021
There he our fancy of itself bereaving, Did make us marble with too much conceiving.
From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb, 1796-1820 by E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas
His 'testifying' against her probably means that His providence in bereaving her witnessed to His disapprobation.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII by Alexander Maclaren
He sees a solitary one, absolutely alone, without kith or kin dependent on him, and yet he toils on, "bereaving his soul of good" as unceasingly as when he first started in life.
From Old Groans and New Songs Being Meditations on the Book of Ecclesiastes by Frederick Charles Jennings
